Our Mission

The mission of the Impact Capital Forum is to advance the microfinance, impact, and social enterprise sectors by providing a platform for innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership.

Founded in 2003, the organization previously was known as the Microfinance Club of NY.

Now announcing our inaugural Working Group: Opportunity Zone Investing. Working Groups are forums to foster and deepen dialogue and share learnings through monthly meetings centered around certain influential and fast evolving impact themes. Learn more and how to register here.

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Working Groups

Impact Capital Forum’s mission is to advance the microfinance, impact, and social enterprise sectors by providing a platform for innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership.As a field-building platform, the Impact Capital Forum facilitates dialogue as well as action. Towards this end,for certain influential and fast-evolving impact themes, we will convene Working Groups, which emerge from Impact Capital Forum events. These working groups will serve as a forum to foster and deepen dialogue and share learnings through monthly meetings.

Opportunity Zoneshave emerged as a transformative economic development tool, providing a new incentive to place much-needed capital into distressed communities.They also offer investors opportunities to defer and/or reduce their tax liabilities when committing capital to designated zones in the US. Opportunity Zones. A helpful guide to Opportunity Zone investing ishere.

The working group will interact to clarify the Opportunity Zone Regulations and its application and to facilitate opportunities for members and their organizations. Each session we will target a different aspect of Opportunity Zones. The group is relevant to foundations, financial institutions, impact investing intermediaries, fund managers, investors, attorneys, advisors, real estate developers, etc.

LocationOrrick - 51 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019.

The first Working Group meeting will be held on January 23, 2019.Breakfast will be served.

The event is co-sponsored by Impact Capital Forum and Orrick, a law firm and leading advisor in the Technology, Energy & Infrastructure, and Financial sectors globally.

How to Register

When you visit this eventweb page,you have the choice of registering as a new or existing Impact Capital Forum ‘member’; this includes access to all future working group meetings as well as participation in electronic communications of the working group. There is also an option to register for the breakfast as a ‘non-member’, which includes access to just the one event.

Individuals and institutions aren’t just looking for returns from their investments; they also want to know that their money is making a difference.Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investment. By incorporating these factors into investment management processes, investors can change lives while boosting risk-adjusted returns.Join us to learn the many ways to embrace impact.

Speakers:

Travis Allen, Senior Portfolio Manager, AllianceBernstein

Michael Ellis,Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP

Richard Zimmerman, Advisor at WE Family Offices.

Location:AllianceBernstein - 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 41st Floor (Between 54th and 55th Streets), New York City

This event has reached maximum capacity. We're still accepting waitlist registrants. If you're not longer able to attend, we ask that you notify us so that those on the waitlist can attend.

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), also called pay-for-success contracts, are public-private partnerships that fund social services through performance-based agreements. Private investors receive a return of capital and premium only if social performance objectives are met.

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), also called pay-for-success contracts, are public-private partnerships that fund social services through performance-based agreements. Private investors receive a return of capital and premium only if social performance objectives are met.

The goal of SIBs is to enable governments to partner with service providers and tap private investments in order to expand effective social programs. The model promises to provide new sources of financing for critical social services, to improve cost-effectiveness of services by focusing on measurable outcomes, and to allow innovative models in providing services by shifting the initial risk to private investors.

Please join us for a panel discussion focused on how this model has played out in practice. Have SIBs proven to be an effective impact investing tool? An innovative model for public-private partnerships? Have they achieved the promised results in the improvement of social services?

Speakers:

Deborah Burand is the director of the International Transactions Clinic and co-director of the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship.

BNP Paribas' Innovation Center is located at 787 7th Ave., 30th Floor, in Manhattan.The BNPP front desk is between 6th and 7th Ave, on the south side on the building. The building can be accessed by walking to the middle of the block from 6th avenue or directly on 7th avenue. All attendees check in at the front desk, referencing the Impact Capital Forum registration list, before being directed to the 30th floor.

Startups and service providers are building innovative, technology-driven products to support the impact investment community. The purpose of this discussion is to showcase leading innovations that are helping the impact investing capital markets grow exponentially through tools such as impact data measurement software. Impact Capital Forum, the Centre for Social Innovation and Convene will host a panel of leaders including startup founders, research professionals, and impact investors to highlight the opportunities created through tech-driven impact innovation.